VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

The ministry of earth sciences (MoES) has launched a smartphone app called ‘SAFAR-Air’ to provide the real-time air quality to people. It also provides a forecast for the next two days and a health advisory along with a colour coded grading of air quality in different city zones. The app can be downloaded for free either from Google Play store or the MoES and the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) websites. In Delhi, the app will provide air quality for east, north, south, west and central Delhi. In Pune, the app will cover urban, suburban and two other zones. A similar monitoring for Mumbai is going to be launched in April. App users can also compare the levels in these cities.   see more 

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Riverbed Technology has announced enhancements to its software and virtual application delivery controller (ADC) product family, Stingray. These enhancements allow enterprises and cloud operators to extend the benefits of the ADC with the integration of its Aptimizer web content optimization (WCO) solution. Stingray Traffic Manager 9.0 is also released. It is the industry’s only ADC with comprehensive WCO capability. Also, new Stingray Aptimizer models are released that can be deployed with any ADC to improve performance without changes to the application server or users’ browsers. Tim Maliyil, CEO, AlertBoot said, “Our entire business is online, so if we experience any type of downtime, it can be disastrous to our productivity, revenue, and overall user experience. We’ve used hardware load balancers for nearly 10 years, but when we moved to a fully-virtualized environment running in the public cloud, we deployed the Stingray Traff...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ericsson has launched an application to run on its IP networking Smart Services Router (SSR) 8000 family offering that can handle more mobile data traffic than any other mobile packet gateway on the market. The Evolved Packet Gateway application, designed to be used with the SSR 8020, offers an order of magnitude higher capacity than the nearest competitor. With the Evolved Packet Gateway on SSR8020, operators can attract and efficiently serve active mobile subscribers who drive traffic growth with their smartphones and tablets. It introduces network intelligence that enables operators to offer an unparalleled diversity of applications and choice in devices. Ericsson's new Evolved Packet Gateway employs the application software that has successfully been used in the GGSN-MPG, operating in 240 networks in 130 countries, serving billions of subscribers. Working on the SSR 8020, capacity increases more than ten-fold and brings the same intel...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GlobalLogic has announced that Kevah Works, an end-to-end mobile application service it developed for Valorem Systems in Australia, has received 2011 InClean Award for Innovative IT Technology in Australia. Kevah Works, designed from the ground up for facilities services such as cleaning, maintenance, and landscaping, is a result of eight years of R&D by Valorem Systems, in tandem with application development services by GlobalLogic. Providing a comprehensive solution for quality assurance, site inspections and audits, periodical inspections, work orders and extra work, the application allows secure levels of access and reporting for staff and clients across the worksite. Valorem Systems will market Kevah Works to Indian facilities management companies in 2012. A Netscribes India report, estimated the size of India’s Infrastructure and facilities management industry to be more than Rs 300 billion, presenting a significant opportunity fo...